welcome to "cbs this morning." we begin with breaking news from london where a helicopter crashed this morning at the height of rush hour. it caused a huge fireball o

them to be believed the helicopter pilot and 13 more have been treated for their injuries. flames and debris filled the road when a thick plume of black smoke marked the scene of the crash not far from one of the capital's busiest commuter intersections and the site of the new embassy. the helicopter collided with crane near the top of a high-rise building at a construction site before spiraling into the street in the middle of london's rush hour traffic. local resident matt haverson feared the worst. >> we thought it was a terror attack. someone shoultted that the plane flew into the crane. >> reporter: british police were quick

of that unfinished building. charlie and norah? >> elizabeth palmer thank you. boeing 787 dreamliner is having new trouble this morning. one of the groundbreaking airliners had to make yet another emergency landing. it happened less than reagan international airport but it has regulators and passengers watching carefully. it made an emergency landing in tack a mat-su 45 minutes into its flight from western japan

into tokyo. cockpit instruments alerted pilots to battery problem that triggered emergency warnings. escape chutes were deployed and all 129 passengers and eight crew members were evacuated. there were at least five minor injuries. runways at the airport were temporarily shut down. >> when the cockpit crew decides to make an emergency landing and divert to an airport and then actually evacuate the that tells me there's something that they're very concerned about. >> in a news conference a spokesman for the airline said dreamliner service will resume once they can identify the cause of the problem and confirm the plane's safety. in the last six weeks there have been eight reported mishaps involving 787s last week in boston a japan airline's dreamliner had a fire on board after landing. >> japan air 7 heavy hold your position. we have fire trucks coming to you. >> reporter: the culprit the same type of battery involved in last night's incident. transportation experts insist these are normal growing pains

but in a statement last night the faa said it's adding this but the incident to the comprehensive review of the 787 it's already comprehens conducting. >> the key is to be able to understand what's going on with to these aircraft get them fixed, what's goi and make sure that if it's a design issue, make the it's appropriate change so that it so doesn't plague the manufacturing process and operating process for the life of the aircraft. >> reporter: the national transportation safety board is sending an investigator to japan along with representatives from the faa and boeing. japan airlines also grounded its 787s last night meaning about half of the dreamliner fleet is e, currently temporarily out of service.iner currently >> thank you. white house officials say president obama will launch a presiden sweeping effort this morning to launch target gun violence in america, un he's expected to present a ent a three-part plan focusing on gun sales, education, and mental health. major garrett is at the white house. major, good morning. >> reporter: well, good morning,

charlie and norah, cbs news has learned new details including the renewed effort to stop re law to bullying in schools and the president's health care law to increase access to mental health gun control services. gun control will dominant the cal headlines. the president will call for a assault tougher assault weapons ban after the one that expired in ten years in 2004. he'll also ask congress to ban fire all firearm ammunition magazines containing more than ten bullets, he'll also seek universal criminal and mental health background checks for all gun sales including private transactions. the assault weapons ban is already an uphill fight. >> we'll not prejudge -- s that befor >> before it started or -- -- >> i don't believe that.ve and i think that that doesn't a mean it's a sure thing either. if if these things were easy they ve been would have been achieved ach already. >> reporter: the white house will also push for a tougher he white hou federal gun trafficking law to trafficking

l punish gun merchants to refuse punish gun to run thorough background re checks. also an executive order for federal health agencies to order conduct wide-ranging research viol into gun violence. the president will also beef up anti-bullying efforts with more school counselors. there will also be federal aid to schools who want to hire armed and trained security more school officers and under the health care law, mr. obama will train more mental health counselors and expand access to mental off health services in schools. he the president summarized his goals at monday's press t conference. >> my starting point is not to nt is not worry about the politics. is t my starting point is to focus ones what makes sense, what works. >> reporter: all this will be unveiled before a group of unveiled children surrounding the president.dren sur they were invited because they were wrote the white house after the newtown massacre pressing their aft sorrow and fear.sacre on the eve of his announcement the national rifle association on posted this web ad announce ingdenouncing him for using secret service for

his protection for his daughters but denouncing armed guards in daug schools. >> mr. obama demands the wealthy. pay their fair share of taxes but he's another elitist hypocrite when it comes to fair share of security. >> reporter: the white house had no reaction to this nra accusation. and the coming gun control fight the white house expects very intense resistance on capitol hill to a reinstatement of the assault weapons ban and limiting the weapon magazines and the president will fight both but nd the biggest on fight is putting nk y gun sales under backglownd checks.ates the leading "time" magazine cover shows michael bloomberg, vice president joe biden and former congressman gabrielle giffords who survived a shooting two years ago. for more on the politics john for more dickerson joins us now, john good mor good morning. >> good morning. >> let's start first with this new nra ad which criticizes the president as an elite ihypocrite crit

and brings the president's daughters into the fight.the fight. is this getting personal? >> well it's already been pretty personal, but, yes, this is -- this is a very incendiary i message to the nra members and also, though, it's trying to expand charges against the president. in other words, this video that the the nra's put out makes a larger argument. it's not just about guns it's puts going in to the people when have negative views about the president.am so, it uses all the emotional -- presses all presses all the emotional r those p buttons for those people who dent and t don't like the president and the nra is making it about hipock extrassy and not safety. >> the president said he's not worried about the politics right now but the politics will make a especia difference. how aggressive will they be especially on the assault weapon weapons ban? >> they will be aggressive, there's some reporting that the white house is backing away from the assault weapons ban, aides called up supporters and valerie

va jarrett called up allies to say we're not dropping the assault weapons ban. what's important to keep your eye on on that the president is nt is the for the assault weapons ban but it's also part of the negotiation in convincing some s of these moderate democrats and even maybe some republicans. they need to push for that so need to that if the ultimate deal that if doesn't include that it's a imate part of the bargaining process it's so that a moderate democrat can say, well, yes, i voted for an mo ultimate package, but to their for nra friends they can say but i didn't support the assault weapons ban. nra i d it's all part of the dance we're about to start to get into here. >> does the president and the administration believe because of mayor bloomberg and gabrielleh giffords and because of what happened at newtown this time the odds are shifting in their ga favor, notwithstanding the resistance? >> yes, they believe the odds are shifting in their favor but yes, the they don't believe the odds haveg i shifted wildly in their favor. it's still an uphill climb and particularly on an assault a weapons ban but to show you how lt the politics have shifted it's basically conventional wisdom

now that the background check has a lot of support, polling lot of shows even among nra members there's a lot of support for background checks for all kinds rs of gun sales.t you know, eight years ago or ten years ago that was a huge ten yea political fight that the supporters of gun control laws. the >> and, john just quickly, what about the optics of today, the >> president surrounding himself quickly, with children to make this unding announcement? >> the white house wants to makehe preside this fight about children not about taking away gun rights. >> john dickerson, thanks. cbs news will have live coverage of president obama's announcement this morning, the coverage anchored by scott pelley will begin at 8:55 pacific time. now that lance armstrong has admitted to using performance enhancing drugs, the international cycling union has asked him to repeat his confession to an anti-doping commission and reveal everything he knows, he's already talking to the u.s. anti-doping agency leading to speculation he's ready to name names.he skip reid has more on the has

fallout from the oprah winfrey ning. interview. goord good morning. >> cbs news has learned that armstrong has turned down a restitution payment for alleged fraud and the offer to cooperate with authorities in a federal investigation has also be an rejected as inadequate. >> reporter: the world still has to wait one more day to see sti lance armstrong's highly will anticipated interview with oprah winfrey. >> i would say he did not come clean in the manner that i expect expected. it was surprising to me. we were mesmerized and riveted by some of his answers. >> reporter: but those answers won't be enough to satisfy anti-doping officials. tuesday the world anti-doping offi agency said armstrong would need to make a full confession under l oath if he ever wants the chance he to compete again. the former cycling champion was banned from the sport and stripped of his seven tour de rt a france titles following the

release of a mountain of evidence against him. in an interview with scott mou pelley on "60 minutes," former armstrong teammate tyler hamilton accused the international cycling union or ing up uci of covering up the doping heir sort scheme.f >> they had their sort of golden boy, they had their, you know, to a their ticket to a lot of money.y. >> and their ticket to america, it made america crazy about cycling. >> incredible. incredible. >> but it is your opinion that the uci would sanction the cheating as opposed to sufferingpposed the consequences? >> yeah.h. 100%. 100%. >> reporter: the uci has set up an independent commission to investigate similar claims meanwhile armstrong continues to meanwh try to make amends after lying for more than a decade. de sally jenkins who co-authored co two books with him appeared on "charlie rose" tuesday night. >> for better or worse this is his moment to sort of let people his momen hear it from him rather than hear it read it in a report or hear it ha

in a broadcast. >> it remains to be seen what consequences armstrong will face armst at least two lawsuits against east two him are pending and legal experts say criminal charges are cr a real possibility. >> chip reid thank you. with is david epstein, a for senior writer for "sports illustrated," he's covered the ted." lance armstrong story, david, good morning. >> good morning. >> so, let me ask you, christinemorning. brennan has a piece in "the usa today" who said that he did thisine brennan not because it was the right iece thing to do because he must s he did believe it's the expedient thing it's the to do. do how much trouble is he in legally? >> he's in a lot of trouble civilly for sure so in the whistle-blower lawsuit where he's trying to reach kind of a settlement to give the u.s. postal service back some money he could face triple damages . there because it's a case of defrauding the government so probably -- okay, we know he oi prejudice perjured himself, in a case where he said he didn't dope butd the statute of limitations is out, so criminally a federal

prosecutor would have to retake up a case that's been dropped e and it's unlikely.probably >> who he might implicate and >> how d how deep might this scandal go? >> the reason he would implicate people is to get his ban reducedet his and to do that he can't just can't confess to what has already been out there. he has to implicate new people he has and that would mean the highest levels of the international cycling union, pat mcquade, the rnational cy head of the international cycling union who are very s powerful people in world sport.s one >> one thing to confess to doping, but another thing to trydoping. to intimidate people and nd threaten them. how how profound and how serious are serious are the allegations of that? allegatio >> extremely. of i think that's one thing that makes this case very different is there are people who have really been ruined because of e people lance's aggressive attempts to keep them quiet or to drag them attempts into court. when he knew they were telling the truth. into and i've been talking to a lot were of people like that and i think there will be no closure for a of lot of people no matter what that. unless he makes apologies to

very specific people in very makes specific ways not just about his own doping.s to specifi >> i'm just focused on what chip said at the top of his piece, that he's offered to pay $5 5 million and they turned him he down. >> he's offered to pay $5 >> he' million and they're sitting ay there saying we can take much million more -- you're going to be be giving us much more than that mu anyway, so why take $5 million why when you're going to get $30 g to get million or $120 million, it's just like you offered you a $1 if i owed you $100. >> wow. >> what has it done to cycling? >> only in america where it was a big sport when lance armstrong was competing and it's a huge sport sport in europe it e devastated. it's the crescendo of 100 years . of doping and i don't think it will ever be the same. >> thank you.morning's britain's "telegraph" report office the latest violence in syria. more than 80 people killed by explosions. most are students who died on aleppo. the first day of final exams. the assad government blames the

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first he disappeared. then he admitted indiscretion. this morning after scandal brought him down former south carolina governor mark sanford tries to rebuild his shattered political career. we'll show you the job he has in mind and hear jenny sanford's advice for her ex-husband. and walmart makes an offer to america's veterans. when you get out of uniform, come and work for us. we'll get reaction from two veterans who need a job on "cbs this morning."

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snow, and ice storm in the east that's caused a 1,000-mile front. welcome back to "cbs this morning." and we all know that getting enough sleep is important, but do you know that the position that you sleep in can affect your health? we'll show you how it works, perhaps provide some examples and show you how sleeping on your back might help your back pain on "cbs this morning." your local news is next.

an east san jose woman nearly lost her two- year- old daughter to an good morning. 7:26. i'm frank mallicoat getting you caught up with bay area headlines. an east san jose woman nearly lost a 2-year-old daughter to an abductor while the man tried to rip her from her arms. he ran away. the girl is okay. protestors were on hand when a city council voted for crime fighting measures, voting to hire an outside consultant but did not specify it will be bill bratton, the council will take it up next week. we've got your traffic and weather after the break.

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i'm sorry, oprah. we may be friends but i'm not playing into your little p.r. stunt. if you will not tell us what happened between you and lance, i have a responsibility as a journalist to make something up. >> he brought it he really did. literally two and a half hours. we both were pretty exhausted. and i would say i was satisfied. about 1 hour and 48 minutes in we took a break and lance actually said will there be a point that you lighten up. i was satisfied. the word i keep using is "satisfied." >> sounds like lance gave oprah a one-night subscription to "o." >> gayle, you work over there,

don't you in. >> i do. i was thinking stephen is very very good. governor mark sanford is asking for a second chance. a highly publicized affair in 2009 caused him his marriage and sent him into political exile two years later. jan crawford is in washington with the story. good morning. >> good morning, norah, good morning, charlie. we've pretty much seen mark sanford at his lowest. after sinking so low and saying he was done with politics sanford is now saying he wants to come back. >> the bottom line is this. i've been unfaithful to my life. >> reporter: this was the last time most americans heard from mark sanford. >> and all i can say is that i apologize. >> reporter: it was a press conference that was painful to watch. sanford, then south carolina governor, caught in a lie nearly four years ago and forced to

confess to cheating on his wife with an argentinian woman he called his soulmate. his wife jenny drew praise for refusing to stand beside him, and she moved out of the governor's mansion with her four sons. facing messy divorce charges sanford wouldn't step down and served out the next two years of his term. pundits were confident sanford's political career was over and even he seemed to agree. >> there's been a lot of talk about you maybe re-entering the political world. i'm jumping a head a little bit. are you? >> no, i'm not. >> reporter: he announced he's a candidate for congress. he pointed to the country's financial health as motivation saying that in his 20 years in public service he had an amazingly consistent record on looking out for the taxpayer. asked whether taxpayers might have an issue with him looking after another woman, sanford said, don't judge any one person

by their best day. don't judge them by their worst day. look at the totality. the whole of their life. >> i said, we need you right now, mark. merge needs you. >> reporter: tom davis has been sanford's friend since college. >> i think people recognize human beings are flawed he's asked forgiveness and he deceives it. >> reporter: jenny sanford has announced she might run for the same congressional seat and then gave her husband some advice. now tom davis told us sanford and his argentinian girlfriend plan to marry. we asked if she's going to cam pawn with him or show up on the campaign trail and davis declined to answer. mark sanford can expect all of those kinds of questions and a whole lot more. charlie and norah. >> jan you're right, a whole lot of questions as jenny sanford ran mark sanford's

campaigns for many years. in the beginning was his political soulmate if you will in many regards. now what does it mean for this new relationship that mark sanford has. >> when you think about jenny sanford, remember when she didn't show up with him at the press conference a lot of women said finally, because we've seen so many political scandals where the wife stood there looking sad while the husband confessed to all of his sins. she got a lot of praise wrote a book. a lot of people thought she was going to run for congress. she was a very strong powerful woman in her own right before she got married and became the first lady of the state of south carolina. she had that key role in his campaign. we don't know what his girlfriend soon-to-be wife will played. like you said, a lot of questions as he steps out onto the campaign trail. >> thank you. and walmart is making a big promise to veterans. we first reported that america's largest employer is offering a job to any recent military vet who wants one, and as anna

werner reports, the plantar gets a lot of people looking for work. >> reporter: walmart's five-year plan promises a job to any veteran who's been honorably discharged from active duty within the past 12 months. in doing so it would double the number of veterans working in its stores and offices from 100,000 to 200,000 veterans. walmart's ceo bill simon up veiled the plan on tuesday in new york. >> not every veteran wants to work in retail and that's okay but every veteran who does will have a place to go. >> reporter: janise hooper is a former veteran who's looking for part-time work as she plans to study to be a nurse. >> reporter: what do you think of walmart's projection of hiring a thousand people? >> that's a lot of people. i hope they stick to it because there are a lot of veterans who need the help. >> reporter: the unemployment rate for veterans of iraq and

afghanistan is 10.8%. a full 3% higher than the national rate of 7.8%. jeffrey mczeal is a veteran who's been out of work for six months. he hopes walmart's plan will inspire others. >> i thought that was great thing. i mean i don't hear of any other companies making that type of commitment, and with walmart doing it and being big and everyone knows walmart's a big household name hopefully others will follow. >> reporter: because he was discharged in 2001 he's not eligible for walmart's new hiring plan. >> i wish this could have been done a long time ago, but better now than ever. >> reporter: walmart's announced a $50 million buy america program that is to help america stimulate economy. it's a plan when it's been the target of workers who want higher salaries and more opportunities for full-time work. the company's offered the hire veterans who apply will begin on memorial day.

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fortune magazine is about to release its annual list of the 100 best companies to work for. it's based on opinion from more than a quarter million workers. they were asked about pay benefits, child care options, work balance and other issues.

andy serwer is here to talk about the top companies. who's number one? >> number one is google. they've been number one before. they were number one last year. they continue to make google a great place to work for employees. >> how do they do that? >> well you heard about the googleplex in california which is like a college campus with free food, a place for pets electric cars. they opened up a seven-acre fitness gym with botch chi, roller and all kinds of things like that. >> what do they rate when they rate a company as great place to work for? >> obviously pay and benefits. there's all kinds of perks like things like extra bonuses for vacation benefits for same-sex partners, also health care is incredibly important, things like that. >> are there benefits and perks that are trending that are beginning to get more appreciation than before?

>> i think so charlie. working for philanthropic companies and supporting giving you time off. >> let's take a look at the list. number one is google. number two is a european company. >> sas from raleigh, north carolina. >> north carolina. >> that's right. they're a private company. day care and organic farms for their kitchens. >> who else? >> cag which gg chg. they're trying to work it as hard as people who, say, put on a television program, always thinking. and these people for instance, have dress up like presidents' day for history. crazy fun stuff. that makes work appealing. >> the next one? >> the next one is bcg, boston consulting group, a very blue chip consulting group. they send out things like a-ha

you guys are working too hard rhett zone reports, extra vacations.vacations. very creative things. >> what about the people you work with? i say my great perk is i get to work with gayle and charlie. >> i don't know that that can happen all the time. that's like picking your relatives. if you could do that that would be a great thing. >> that does make work exciting. you like the people you work with. >> again to make that happen you create people that attracts the best people to come there. >> you create a culture. >> that rice. you look at google. they get the best talent in america. young people are killing to work there. it's super competitive to get a job there, and they're continuing to innovate and a lot of that is because they get the best people to come and stay there. >> andy, thank you for

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if you didn't sleep well last night, it may be time to change the way you sleep. the story in yesterday's "wall street journal" demonstrates how your body position in bed can affect your health. with us now is dr. anna krieger, medical director of the weill cornell sleep deprivation portion at presbyterian hospital. good morning. we had the best discussion about sleep and who we sleep with. >> go to the best part of the conversation. >> let's start first with position. how important is position how you sleep? >> it's very important for comfort. if you have back problems you shouldn't sleep your honor stomach. >> so what's the best way to

sleep? on your back? >> side or your back would be the best position. >> don't most people toss and turn through the night? >> often. people move once or twice an hour. sometimes it's mild movement or there's a change in body position. you always look for a comfortable position to sleep in. >> now, the conversation we were having during the break was how important is it who you sleep with and charlie asked a question which was -- >> what percentage of a couple sleep in the same bed or bedroom? >> probably about half. >> why is that? >> you may have someone senator or someone who has a different schedule who goes to bed late or wakeseasterly. we need to capitalize on sleep. >> if you had top tips for how to get a better night's sleep, what would you recommend? >> i would recommend having a better bedtime ritual. >> ritual. >> relaxing stretching exercise.

then develop a routine that will get you to bed at the same tomb stay away from stimulants caffeine, large meals, late meals. all of that can disrupt sleep. >> what about sex? >> sex can help sleep, particularly for men. but it can be a little stimulating. >> we hope so. >> and what about, you know parents who have young children? that's one of the biggest things that interrupt sleep. >> we need to train our kids to sleep in their own bedrooms. it's not easy. >> sleep in their own bedroom. >> exactly. they need to have their own presence in their bedroom and slowly remove yourself. >> dr. krieger, thank you so much. planning a secure retirement will help you sleep better. we're looking at why so many people are sabotaging their savings before retiring by paying bills with their 401(k). that's ahead on "cbs this

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by response to its gun buyback program. in all... people turned-in more than eight- hundred guns at five locations yesterday. the 43 thousand dollars raised for the program was gone quickly... so officers had to start handing out vouchers. marin county, the $43,000 raids for the gun buyback was used quickly and officers used vouchers. another one is monday in mill valley and san rafael. george gund passed away yesterday. he and his brother established the expansion team. stay with us. traffic and weather in just a moment.

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toward milpitas it is backed up right now. westbound 237 headed out to sunnyvale, because of a series of different accidents. everything is now cleared off to the right-hand shoulder, but the drive time is up to 17 minutes now, between milpitas and sunnyvale. also, a bad hot spot, westbound 4 approaching bailey is still slow, from antioch, a continuous line of brake lights out almost to concord. that's traffic. for your forecast, here is lawrence. it's cold out there too. chilly temperatures again to start out the day but it looks like a promise of some warmer weather ahead the next few days, overlooking the golden gate bridge, we've got sunshine coming up, it will stay that way to the coast. cold in the valleys, we've got 20s and 30s again this morning, and patchy frost, by the afternoon, if we're lucky, highs in the 60s, more 60s, and staying dry through the weekend.

it is 8:00 a.m. welcome back to "cbs this morning." london's rush hour turns into chaos as a helicopter crashes into a neighborhood full of commuters. and your 401(k) is supposed to be off limits until you retire. we'll see why so many americans are spending that money early and what they should do instead. but first here's a look at today's eye opener at 8:00. >> some have confirmed two people died in this crash. one of them was the pilot. >> breaking news from london where a helicopter crashed this morning at the height of rush hour. it caused a huge fireball on the ground, sending people running for cover. boeing 787 dreamliner is having new trouble this morning. one of the groundbreaking airliners had to make an emergency landing. >> gun control fight, white

house expects resistance on capitol hill. reinstating the assaults weapons ban and limiting the size of those ammunition magazines. >> they believe the odds are shifting in their favor but it's still an uphill climb. there's wet, snowy, and potentially dangerous weather from the gulf coast to the northeast this morning. >> it remains what consequences armstrong will face. >> it's one thing to confess and another to intimidate people and threaten them. >> people have been ruined when they knew they were telling the truth. >> we have seen mark sanford at his lowest point but after sinking so low and saying he was done with politics sanford is now saying he wants to come back. the top companies for 2013. who's number one? >> number one is google. president obama told coming -- congress it must raise our debt limit because the u.s. is quote, not a dead beat nation. yeah. and the president added, by the way, if china calls, i'm not here. i'm charlie rose with gayle

king and norah o'donnell. we're following breaking news out of london where at least two people were killed when a helicopter crashed into a construction crane. the chopper hit the street in flames in the middle of rush hour and elizabeth palmer is at the scene. elizabeth, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, charlie. well, two people were killed, and we've just had confirmation that one of them was the pilot of the helicopter. 13 other people have been treated for injuries. the impact sent these massive pieces of flaming debris crashing down into the streets in the middle of rush hour traffic. people scrambled for cover. a lot of them thought it might be a terrorist attack. but the police and fire crews responded very fast, and they reassured people, no, it was an accident. no word yet on what could have caused it. although witnesses report it was foggy this morning at this time and also that the helicopter was being diverted from its original landing destination to another one. while they started out this

whole area is going to be closed, and, of course, there's another challenge and that is to take down the enormous construction crane which at the moment is dangling down the side of that unfinished building and looking very unstable indeed. charlie and norah? >> elizabeth palmer, thank you. and the ntsb is sending a investigator to japan where a boeing 787 was forced to make an emergency landing this morning. the 137 passengers and crew had to use the emergency chute. there were battery problems and a burning smell in the cockpit. japan's two major airlines have temporarily grounded their 787s, 24 in all. the new airliner has had eight recent problems including a battery fireworks a cracked windshield and fuel leaks. the faa say this latest incident will be include in its comprehensive review that began of 787s last week. lance armstrong was once a

high-flying cycling champion and the media could not get enough of him. once again armstrong is the focus of the pop culture world after he admitted to oprah winfrey he used performance-enhancing drugs. oprah confirmed armstrong's confession to us yesterday. >> i thought he had certainly prepared himself for this moment. i would say that he met the moment. >> just past 8:00 yesterday morning oprah winfrey appeared on "cbs this morning" to share details of her highly anticipated interview with controversial cyclist lance armstrong. >> i would say he did not come clean in the manner that i expected. it was surprising to me. >> by 10:00, the airways were filled with outcries and opinions. >> when anybody accused lance armstrong of doping, he came at them very harsh, very critically, and i think -- >> everybody knew. the riders knew. the cyclists knew. where was everybody? >> i think the 50% who forgive

him will never forget. it's the lying. >> though some are still backing armstrong, praising his philanthropic work. >> is the fact that he did so much for cancer, does that mitigate against this? >> let's not forget all the good this man has done. >> others condemn the former champion for his denial and deceit. >> the one-time hero lance armstrong is now a disgrace to humankind. >> i said he's a weasel. >> his livelihood could be determined by our legal system. >> i'll tell you. what tough road ahead, maria. possible lawsuits, fraud. it's going to be tough. >> thank you so much. >> but the court of public opinion isn't likely to rest its case for quite some time. >> the interview supposedly lasted for close to three hours. so it's sort of like a regular interview but on steroids. >> the man is a hero. he beat cancer. then he went on to beat something even less popular, the french.

>> and the number one other lance armstrong revelation admitted to doping just to get on "oprah." >> you know, it's interesting. you walk down the street. i hear very few people that are in the middle. people are either here or they are over here. so after the interview on thursday night, i'm curious to see how many people's opinions will change one way or the other. i can't wait to see it. i can't wait to see it. >> it's an incredible story that someone could be so high and fall so low. >> starting this weekend president obama's limousine will carry a new license plate, taxation without representation. like all of the license plates they started using the slogan in 2000 to protest washington's lack of a voting member in congress. it will stay on all of mr. obma's official vehicles through his second term. the 2008 presidential campaign was the first time we heard the expression no drama, obama. it was a compliment from his supporters. now bill plante says critics say

the president is not only no drama but he's no fun and that's hurting his relationship with congress. >> please have a seat everybody. good morning. >> reporter: the morning of the last meeting came to an unusual ground. debt ceiling, gun control, fiscal cliff. but then a reporter asked about the criticism that the president is too insular, doesn't socialize enough. >> most people who know me know i'm a pretty friendly guy. and i like a good party. >> there's sometimes a disconnect with some people. anybody who gets to know president obama, finds him to be just like a normal and fun. >> reporter: presidential historian and cbs news consultant douglas brinkley says there's a reason the president hasn't connected with congress. >> things have changed in washington. characters like ted kennedy who used to be able to be friends with the opposition are gone. he just hasn't been able to find that special bond like ronald

reagan had with tip o'neill on capitol hill. >> reporter: the president reminded reporters on monday he did play a friendly round of golf with house speaker john boehner in 2011. >> i like speaker boehner personally. when we went out and played golf, we had a great time. >> reporter: but mr. obama was quick to add it didn't help to solve the budget impasse. will things be any different when the president begins his second term next week? he seemed to hint they might be. >> now that my girls are older, they don't want to spend as much time with me anyway, aisle probably be calling around to look for somebody to play cards with me or something because i'm getting kind of lonely in this big house. maybe a whole bunch of members of the house republican congress want to come over and socialize more. >> reporter: and if they don't -- >> remember, barack obama has over 50% public approval rating. congress is around 17% on a good day. so the blame here may not be on the president.

he seems pretty well liked in the united states. >> he might become a party animal? >> that's right. >> look. in the words of a great old movie line, what we have here is a failure to communicate. i mean the white house feels that he's not going to get any ground with the congress that wanted him out of office after his first four years. the republicans on the hill feel that all he does is preach to them and tell them why he's right instead of trying to find the middle ground. >> but, bill, the president frames this as not socializing with republicans, but the beef in washington is many democratic members of congress feel that they have not been treated fairly or get the kind of phone calls from a president that they have in the past. >> right. stroked, coddled, invited to dinner, all of those things. and you know what? that's true. and democrats will admit it privately but they won't say it publicly. >> why doesn't he do it with democrats? you might understand it doesn't serve a good purpose with

republicans or very good at getting them to agree. democrats are the people who are his friends and on his side. >> sure. he's not that social for one thing. he'd prefer to do business in a straight-up straightforward manner. he doesn't get the schmoozing part. lyndon johnson did, bill clinton did. he doesn't. >> so even though the kids are going to be out of the house, so to speak, you don't expect him to change? >> i think it would being a great. designee just made a joke the kids are moving out, come on over. >> it's

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e planning for your retirement is more important than ever, so why are more people raiding their 401(k)s to pay their bills? "moneywatch" jill schlesinger is back and she'll show you why it's so important to save and why it's so important to never touch your 401(k). a little later? i'm charlie d'agata in london and i'll tell you why the great british butler is making a great come back coming up on cbs "this morning." thank you, steven.

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we reported yesterday on a study showing one out of four americans is using 401(k) retirement money to pay for current expenses. most advisers will tell you that borrowing from your future is a risky move. jill schlesinger is an editor at large from "cbs moneywatch." jill how are people borrowing from their 401(k)? >> everyplace plan exclusively has a provision where you can create a loan. you lend yourself your own money. there is usually a limitation maybe 50% of the account value up to $50,000. here's what happens. let's say you had $20,000 in your account. you borough $10,000. that $10,000 is not working for

you. that's important. and the money that remains in there keeps growing, no problem. you have to repay that loan through payroll deduction. you have five years to do it. there is one huge risk with a loan. that is if you leave or you get fired or paid off, that loan has to be repaid within 60 days. if not, you get whacked. it's considered a distribution. loans can be dangerous. >> if you get fire, you have no money to pay back. we were raised i always heard do not touch your own 401(k) unless it's a crisis. what continuestitutes a crisis? >> ir sk says says there are hardship cases. if you have to pay if there's a dealt, you can take a hardship with draw. don't forget. it is taxed. you don't get to waive the tax.

you put the money in the account. it hasn't been taxed yet. if you pull the money out, guess what, you pay the income tax and you pay a penalty of 10% if you're under the age of 59 1/2 although there are some events to qualify to get a waiver of that 10% penalty. either way a loan or withdrawal, even if it's a hardship withdrawal is a real last step in your financial life. you don't want to do that. >> and are most people using the hardship withdrawal. is that what you're finding? >> i think it's a mix. i think people were very damaged in the recession and they didn't have a lot of choices. some people did qualify for the hardship choices. some realize the loan might be better, but, again, these are the last measures. we don't want you to do it. >> how does it affect social security? >> it doesn't really affect social security. everyone says well i don't have the money to put in retirement or i'll work longer. those are precarious

assumptions. if you're under 55, i think it's likely to change in your lifetime. you can't counseled on it. it's supposed to be about 40% of your earnings. you've got two other pillars, retirement savings and cash savings. that's the social security part. that's important. in terms of the overall, what's interesting to me is when you have a whole group of people who are literally relying on i'll work longer in my retirement that is ooh also dangerous. what if you can't work? what if your employer doesn't want to keep someone over the age 60. they say 70 is the new 65. that's if you're lucky enough to keep your job. >> i like 70 is the new 65. >> thank you. from concept cars to volkswagen's new suv, we'll look at the cars getting the attention at the detroit auto show. you're watching "cbs this morning." your local news is next.

for marin county's gun buyback program. good morning, everyone. 8:25. time for news headlines. a huge response for marin county's gun buyback program, 800 guns were turned in yesterday, officers had to start handing out vouchers when they ran out of cash. the county has another gun buyback planned for monday. "occupy oakland" protestors filed a lawsuit against oakland and alameda county claiming civil rights were violated because they were held in jail for hours but never charged with any crimes. this is in connection with last year's protest outside the ymca. the boeing 787 dreamliners grounded by ama may be back in the air tomorrow after safety checks are completed. the japanese carrier grounded the fleet yesterday following an emergency landing stopping flights between tokyo and san jose.

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4, sensors pick up a long line of brake lights from antioch to bay point, because of an earlier accident. let's take a quick look at the bright spot, metering lights are on, on the bay bridge, traffic is looking good towards the pay gates. that's traffic. for your forecast, here is lawrence. it is going to be sunny and bright all the way to the coastline today, elizabeth. plenty of sunshine as high pressure builds in overhead. still a bit chilly in spots, looking toward mount diablo, temperature inland in the upper 20s, so we've got some cold temperatures to begin with this morning, but by the afternoon much warmer numbers. 50s and even some 60s beginning to show up outside, just the beginning of some much warmer weather over the next couple of days. high pressure now building in overhead, by tomorrow we get close to the mid-60s, i think some nice weather as we sail towards the weekend. we're going to stay nice and dry not only for the weekend but probably the first part of next week.

♪ ♪ yeah, yeah, yeah. welcome back to "cbs this morning." time to show you this morning's headlines. "the new york times" says the worst drought in 50 years could leave taxpayers with a record bill for crop insurance. the agriculture program estimates that it lost 15.8 billion dollars from crops harvested last year. that's up from $9.4 billion in 2011. "the washington post" reports black carbon, also known as soot, is the second biggest cause of global warming. the study in the journal of geophysical research found only only carbon dioxide is more significant. scientists say soot accelerates warming because the particles absorb heat. "the wall street journal" says retail sales climbed half a percent in december. analysts say it's a possible sign that consumers are finally overcoming their fear of spending and will continue to spur the economy.

and the "los angeles times" says facebook's new search tool is raising privacy concerns. graph search allows users to find information that friends and other users have posted on the site. facebook's stock fell 3% after the announcement. the australian open is under way. that's the first grand slam event of the tennis season. things didn't go so well today for one player and he didn't handle it that well either. >> oh, no. >> oh, my god. oh, my god! >> even if you have a valid point, nothing good comes of that behavior, does it, on the tennis court, guys? >> sometimes i feel like that after a bad interview, but i try not to let it show. >> yet you somehow manage to keep it in, norah o'donnell. we have an update this morning on brian baker. he's a promising american tennis player we first met back in august.

baker came back from a six-year injury layoff last summer and made it to the fourth round at wimbledon. as jeff glor reports, baker was playing in the australian open earlier today when bad fortune struck again. >> reporter: leading in his second round match at the australian open, baker was trying to make his first mark in the first tennis major of 2013. on a routine backhand he pulled up lame and had to be taken away in a wheelchair. his opponent could hardly believe it. >> he's the last guy i want that to happen to. the last guy because baker's career was just getting back on track against extraordinary odds. a decade ago he was the number two ranked junior tennis player in the world. in 2005 he beat a young novak djokovic followed by a stunning upset of the world's ninth ranked player at the u.s. open. in august, however, he told us how that match almost became his last. >> i knew something was going on

and it was the start of the downward spiral. >> reporter: baker needed hip surgery followed by a never ending list of medical issues. five major surgeries. two more on the hip, an elbow reconstruction. he was sidelined for six years. >> was there a point when you said, i'm not going do it anymore? i can't. >> never got to that point. maybe close to that point, i think, after i had the tommy john surgery i told myself, you know, this is probably the last straw, i'm not going to keep having surgeries. but i never got to that one point where i said, hey, i'm throwing in the white towel. >> reporter: in 2011 he was finally able to start competing again and last april he won the savannah challenger in georgia and then came wimbledon, unseated overlooked baker made the round of 16, dropping only one set along the way. >> you surprised a ton of people with what happened at wimbledon. did you surprise yourself?

>> yeah. i think i'd be lying if i didn't say i was surprised a little bit to play my first ever main draw wimbledon, get to the fourth round. that was kind of amazing. >> reporter: in just over a year since his return, brian baker has risen nearly 400 spots in the tennis rankings. and as of today he's number 57 in the world. but now with a torn meniscus, the last man who deserved a bad break is stuck with another one. brian baker will try to come back all over again. for "cbs this morning," i'm jeff glor. >> man. i mean it's just incredible to be that good, to be coming back, and then to have it happen again. >> i know. we were pulling for him. so painful to watch. oh, brian, we're cheering you on. >> good luck. the north american international auto show is off and running in detroit. some of the new concept cars we see each year are turning up in showrooms down the road. here to show you what's exciting this year is jonathan linkov. he's managing editor of the consumer reports cars.

welcome. what's new coming out of this auto show both in style and in technology? >> well, probably making green sexy. is the cadillac, a coupe version of the chevy volt. 35 miles on electricity alone. if you have a short commute, you could save a lot of money. you get 300 miles on a full tank of gas because it has a backup gas engine. >> how much is it pricing for? >> unreleased right now. but it's in the $40,000 range. but the volt $50,000, $60,000. >> it's like when you look at a house and they say call the realtor, you know it's going to be a doozy. >> come on down. >> come on down. when you talk about the best bang for your buck, what's the best? >> nissan. four-door hatchback. 35 miles combined, and you can get 40 miles a gallon on the highway. we didn't like consumer points to the nissan versus sedan.

if they make it a nice inside, nice material, good mileage, a pleasant car to drive but at a good price point where it holds its value this could be a good idea down the road. >> what about the idea of autonomous driving? >> the technology is here. not in one package. we're going to see it 15 years down the road. but with stability control, lean departure monitoring, blind spot monitoring, distance sensing cruise control. you can actually drive in some situations in bumper-to-bumper traffic and the car will guide itself along the road. audi and lexus are both showing those at the show. you're going to see that kind of technology creep in from the top car down. >> is it true no one should underestimate the appeal of a good old-fashioned pickup truck. >> that's really true. as it goes with pickup trucks -- >> you know what i mean. i know you do. >> they're useful not great in cities. >> they're a indication of something, the sales of pickup trucks. what is that? >> they're an indication of how the economy is going. the economy is growing people are buying pickup trucks because we're building.

construction is up. people are confident. they're not cheap. you can get some for 20 but some of the bigger ones, $50,000, $60,000. >> i've watched the news coming out of this auto show and everybody seemed to at least at the top or next to the top be talking about the new corvette stingray. >> the corvette stingray is the car of the show. that's the buzz. that's everything. you don't get a lot of corvettes. this is the seventh generation that the corvette has gone through since 1963. >> that's the first time we've had stingray used in the title. >> since the '60s. i grew up with two in the household. i'm a corvette fan. great car, it's always been the budget -- >> no leg room. >> in the front. two seats. nothing in the rear. >> nothing in the back. >> 450 horse power in the minimum. >> it's not green. >> the corvette is not about green, right? if you're out cruising, the current one can get up to 30 miles per gallon on the highway. >> i think the corvette is how good do i look sitting in this car. >> a sexy car. >> what's the concept car?

i keep hearing that. what is that, john? >> it's something the manufacturers come out with to show what's coming in the future. so it creates buzz, gets people excited. in the past it used to by, hey, we're going to show you this jetsons-like vehicle. you may never see them. nowadays with the money and the way things are going, everything at the show is going to produced in some way. >> all right. jonathan linkov, thank you. nice job. it is the ultimate insiders guide to finding the best restaurant. who doesn't want to know that information. we'll meet the editor who knows where chef loose like to eat when they're not cooking.

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it's called "where chefs eat:a dwight to favorite restaurants." joe is the editor. good morning. >> good morning. >> this is a really cool book. >> i'm glad you think so. >> and covers the world. how did you come up with the idea? >> well i've been lucky to go around the world and meet some of the greatest chefs, my job as a journalist. and any time i go somewhere where i don't know where i am i ask chefs where to go and they very rarely let me down. at the same time the publisher who did this with me confided in chefs around the world. we thought it would be a really good idea to get them to pick these secret places show us you know where they think we should eat. >> go ahead, charlie. >> no. >> go ahead. all right. i love the categories. "wish i thought of it." it goes from high end to low end. really to burger dives as well.

>> yes. it's all sorts of places. >> because you don't want people to thing it ooh's holyity-toity book. >> no. actually when they want to go out, relax and kick back they go somewhere very casual. >> i've got some chefs that are good friends and they often will go out together late at night to a place and hang out and talk. >> yeah. they're particularly good at late-night places. maybe not so much breakfast but there are good breakfast places in there as well. >> are you aware that norah's husband is a chef? >> no i wasn't. >> be careful what you say. >> i love chefs. >> charlie's name dropping and he says he has a lot of friends who are chefs. that's why gayle threw that in. i'm married to one. you think chefs know. i love some of these ideas. i thought what's most interesting is north america is only 150 pages.

you've got europe australia. this is great for anybody going on a trip. >> we're not saying everywhere is in there, the whole world. we'd need a crane to carry that book around but it's a good starting point you know. >> what is it that they look for and is there such a thing as a standup that everybody loves? >> in the category a lot of restaurants right very highly. noma is one of the top rate and copenhagen is top there. >> rene's been here. >> best late-night spots. you have the weiner circle in chicago. blue ribbon sushi. no button san francisco, kamil ya grill in new orleans. hey, we're going to new orleans for the super bowl. and parks barbecue in l.a.

jack's pan fried chicken in harlem. martha lou's kitchen in charlton charleston charleston. >> what's interesting is you know, these guys they either eat well or don't eat at all. so their opinions on everything from fast food places to you know, where to go for breakfast are interesting. i think when we're looking at -- if we were doing this a generation ago it wouldn't have happened because chefs were working longer didn't travel as much, maybe they didn't know where to eat. now they do it for a living and they like to go out. >> do you know how to cook or do you like to eat? >> i can cook. i'm not a wonderful cook but i can cook. i worked in restaurants for ten years before i started doing this. >> all right. thank you so much. we love it. >> thank you very much. nothing says luxury like dinner served by your own

butler. anybody here know about butlers? >> no. >> i wasn't asking you. i was talking to joe. guess what? butlers are making a comeback. we'll show you what it takes to be one next on "cbs this morning."

what could be better than going home after a hard day to find a butler waiting. demand for british butlers has more than doubled thanks to a certain pbs drama. charlie d'agata shows us why serving others can often bring its own reward. >> reporter: if you live in a place like this you're going to need some help around the house, but not to fear. the great british butler is back with a vengeance. buffed to a high sheen and ready for action in a modern world.

bruce wayne's batman has one. >> you rang? >> reporter: the addams family would have been lost without lurch. and then there's jeffrey from ""the fresh prince of bel-air."" the butler is back. even the thoroughly modern prince william and wife katharine are on the lookout for one. but it's specifically the british butler that the super rich are demanding, a surge apparently due to the down on the abbyn downton abby effect. >> i think they see those big old houses from a hundred years ago and they want part of that. they want to get into that kind of hold with britishness. >> reporter: he knows a think or two about britishness. he used to be a butler for

prince charles. he remembers meeting the prince for the first time. >> certainly to walk into this room and he was standing there -- >> reporter: johnb interview. >> you think, wow, this is so amazing. he made me feel at ease. >> reporter: you've done it at the top. >> yes. >> reporter: what does it take to be a butler? >> you've got to be loyal to the person. loyal, trustworthy, and discreet. >> reporter: but . >> this is a cbs news special report. i'm scott pelley. president obama is about to announce his plan for reducing gun violence just over one month since 20 first grade students and six adults were murdered at the sandy hook

elementary school in nutant connecticut. the president is expected to call for an over all of gun laws and an extension of mental health services. the plan is based on recommendations from vice president joe bide won met with a number of groups including gun control advocates and the national rifle association. the president invited families of the newtown victims and survivors to join him at this white house event along with children from around the country who wrote to him about gun violence after the school shooting. major garrett is our chief white house correspondent and joins us in the room now. >> let's go the broad categories of the president's proposals a. fixed gun control. it would give with four principles. an assault weapons ban. stronger than the one that was in place from 1994 to 2004. a ban on high capacity magazines. a universal background check system for all gun sales in the country. and a new gun trafficking law

at the federal level to stiffen penalties for illegal gun sales. another broad category of mental health and school safety. more counselors and safety officers in schools. he will also seek to have new antibullying education in those schools. more mental health counselors and more assistance for those who deal with mental health issues. >> major, thank you very much. and the vice president and president have just entered the auditorium. let's listen in. >> the innocents who were murdered 33 days ago. our heart goes out to. you show incredible courage. incredible courage being here and the president and i are going to do everything in our power to honor the memory of your children and your wives with the work we take up here today. it's been 33 days since the nation's heart was broken by the horrific senseless violence that took place at sandy hook

elementary school. 20. 20 beautiful first graders gunned down in a place that's supposed to be their second sanctuary. six, six members of the staff killed trying to save those children. it's literally been hard for the nation to comprehend. hard for the nation to fathom. and i know for the families who are here, time is not measured in days. it's measured in minutes. in seconds. since you received that news. another minute without your daughter. another minute without your son. another minute without your wife. another minute without your mom. i want to personally thank chris and lin mcdonald who lost a beautiful daughter grace. and the other parents who i had a chance to speak to for their

suggestions and for, again, just for their -- the courage of all of you to be here today. i admire -- i admire the grace and the resolve that you all are showing. and i must say, i've been deeply affected by your faith as well. and the president and i are going to do everything we can to match the resolve you demonstrated. no one can know for certain if this senseless act could have been prevented. but we have a moral obligation to do everything in our power to diminish the prospect that something like this could happen again. as the president knows, i've worked in this field a long time in the united states senate. having shared a committee that had jurisdiction over these issues of guns and crime. and having drafted the first gun violence legislation.

the last gun violence legislation i should say. and i have no illusions about what we're up against. or how hard the task is in front of us. but i also have never seen the nation's conscience so shaken by what happened at sandy hook. the world has changed. and it's demanding action. it's in this context the president asked me to put together, along with cabinet members, a set of recommendations about how we should proceed to meet that moral obligation we have. and toward that end, the cabinet members and i sat down with 229 groups. not just individuals, representing groups. 229 groups from law enforcement agency to see public health officials, to gun officials, to gun advocacy groups, to sports men and hunters and religious leaders. and i've spoken with members of congress and both side of the aisle have had extensive conversations with mayors and governors and county officials. and the recommendations we

provide to the president on monday call for executive actions. he can sign legislation he could call for and long term research should be under taken. based on the emerging consensus we heard from all the groups with whom we spoke. including some of you who were victims of this god awful occurrence. ways to keep guns out of wrong hands. as well as ways to take comprehensive action to prevent violence in the first place. we should do as much as we can. as quickly as we can. and we cannot let it be the enemy of the good. some of what you'll hear from the president will happen immediately. some will take time. but we have begun. and we're starting here today. and we resolve to continue this fight. during the meetings that we held we met with a young man today. collin goddard is here. he was one of the survivors of the virginia tech massacre. he was in classroom. he calls himself one of the

lucky seven. and he'll tell you, he was shot four times on that day. and he has three bullets that are still inside him. and when i asked collin about what he thought we should be doing he said that i'm not here because of what happened to me. i'm here because of what happened to me keeps happening to other people. and we have to do something about it. collin, we will. collin, i promise you we will. this is our intention. we must do what we can now. and there's no person who is more committed to acting on this moral obligation we have than the president of the united states of america. ladies and gentlemen, president barack obama. >> thank you. thank you. thank you. [ applause ]

thank you so much. thank you everybody. please have a seat. good afternoon everybody. let me begin by thanking our vice president joe biden for your dedication, joe, to this issue. for bringing so many different voices to the table. because while reducing gun violence is a complicated challenge, protecting our children from harm shouldn't be a dismissive one. over a month since the tragedy from newtown we heard from so many. and obviously none have affected us more than the families of those gorgeous children and their teachers and guardians who were lost. so we're grateful to all of you for taking the time to be here and recognizing that we honor their memories in part by doing everything we can to prevent this from happening again. but we also heard from some

unexpected people. in particular, i started getting a lot of letters from kids. four of them are here today. grant fritz. julia stokes. and taja good. they're pretty representative of some of the messages that i got. these are some pretty smart letters from some pretty smart young people. hannah, a third grader. you can go ahead and wave hannah, that's you. hannah wrote, i feel terrible for the parents who lost their children. i love my country. and i want everybody to be happy and safe. and then grant, go ahead and wave grant. grant said, i think there should be some changes. we should learn from what happened at sandy hook.

i feel really bad. and then julia said, julia, where are you? there you go. i'm not scared for my safety. i'm scared for others. i have four brothers and sisters and i know i would not be able to bear the thought of losing any of them. and these are our kids. this is what they're thinking about. and so what we should be thinking about is our responsible to care for them. and shield them from harm. and give them the tools they need to grow up. and do everything that they're capable of doing. not just to pursue they're own dreams but to help build this country. this is our first task as a society. keeping our children safe. this is how we will be judged. and their voices should compel

us to change. and that's why last month i asked joe to lead an effort along with members of my cabinet. to come up with some concrete steps we can take right now to keep our children safe. to help prevent mass shootings. to reduce the broader epidemic of gun violence in this country. and we can't put this off any longer. just last thursday, as tv networks were covering one of joe's meetings, on this topic, news broke of another school shooting, this one in california. in the month since 20 precious children and six brave adults were violently taken from us at sandy hook elementary, more than 900 of our fellow americans have reportedly died at the